In Michelle Chen’s article, “Five Myths About Fast-Food Work” she talks about misconceptions associated with people who work at a fast food restaurant. The first issue Chen addresses is the idea that only teenagers work fast food for little to nothing. However, Chen explains that the majority of workers are around twenty years old and some are single parents that are trying to provide for their families. The Next misconception associated with fast-food is the idea that workers can eventually work their way up to owning their own franchise. Chen explains that is highly unlikely because most of the employees are earning minimum wage or close to minimum wage and to start up their own business of the franchise they would need around $750,000. Chen’s…
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The Purpose of this essay is to inform the consumers and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services the negative effects of the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser wrote the book “Chew on This” in 2006, to open oblivious people eyes and show them the truth about the fast food industry. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services should know how the fast food industries has a negative impact towards the community. They manipulate kids by using advertisements, violating animal rights and their is human health concerns we should be aware of.…
the CPI equals aggregate demand (AD) equals short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) equals long-run aggregate supply (LRAS).…
This is a fiction movie taken by the omonym best seller of Eric Schlosser. Mainly the story aims to speak out the desease caused by the fast food system and to denounce the businessmen’s behavior of neglecting the events because of the great deal of money earned with this trade. Furthermore there are different secondary topics dealing with the story such as exploitation, illegal work, animal cruelty, poverty, drug addiction and sexual harassment at work.…
This has become one of the most important keys to their success. Fast food jobs were mostly part-time, provided little training and came with no benefits. In Chapter 3, Schlosser writes, “The fast food industry pays the minimum wage to a higher proportion of its workers than any other American industry. Consequently, a low minimum wage has long been a crucial part of the fast food industry’s business plan. Between 1968 and 1990, the years when the fast food chains expanded at their fastest rate, the real value of the U.S. minimum wage fell by almost 40 percent…While the real value of the wages paid to restaurant workers has declined for the past three decades, the earnings of restaurant company executives have risen considerably.” The fast food industry continues to flourish while corrupting their employees. This plays a major part in our society because immigrants are always in the bottom when it comes to social class, not because they don’t work hard but because they’re given unfair wages.…
11. In a discussion about fast-food corporations it is important to talk about their overseas operations because they want to see demographics. Also, the companies will want to know how much of their money they are going to have to spend.…
Daniel Weintraub in the article, “ The battle against fast food begins in the home” argues that the parents are the ones to blame for child obesity. Fast food companies shouldn't be to blame, because they are only doing their job. Weintraub supports his argument by explaining the data, and research, to show that most studies for customers supersizing options. His purpose was to raise awareness, and inform readers that parents need to take responsibility of their children so that the children don't blame the companies, but blame their own parents. The author writes this in an informal tone for adults to be concerned about their children in the household.…
In my opinion, the way the fast food industry runs their businesses is primarily self-interested, they have changed the common “minimum wage job” to their own industry, with a monopoly of fast food chains down every street. I am of course also speaking of their obvious preference for inexperienced workers. In which case, their employees get taught to do one job, so therefore get paid less. “Teenagers have been the perfect candidates for these jobs, not only because they are less expensive to hire than adults, but also because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control” (68). Schlosser explains how the fast food industry has become an easy job for anyone without experience. Changing our culture of “minimum wage” from pumping gas back in the 1950s to flipping burgers now in present day.…
2013. Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry. UC Berkely Center for Labor Research and Education and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved December 10, 2013. (http://fastfoodforward.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Cost-Fast-Food-Report-FINAL.pdf).…
The latter half of the 20th century brought the birth of many household fast food names. McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, etc. have all become common names across the country. Since then, they have helped to create the unhealthiest, most fast food obsessed nation in American history. From the typical suburban family, to the businessmen of Manhattan, fast food has provided the chance to eat half-decent tasting food, even while wrapped up in the busy lives most Americans live. The content and nutritional values are not given a second…
As fast-food companies grow, so does their power over the economy. Those elite watch their companies grow and do anything to keep their profits growing too. Most workers in America are living under minimum wage than having high paying jobs. The reason is because the few high earners, have created a monopoly over Americas income; giving themselves a healthy portion of what their workers deserve. (Source A) Not only of what the workers deserve, but what they need to live and be able to support their families. Obama has stated "Nobody who works full-time should have to raise their children in poverty." But in reality, Obama would do anything to help, except give up any of his hefty income to help the lower class. Neither would the corporate and big business owners that demanded they were deserving of $15 an hour. As the owners get richer, their workers struggle to make ends meet.…
Sixty percent of all fast food workers are under the age of twenty-four, and they want more money. Fast food workers want their pay per hour to be increased from minimum wage to fifteen dollars. That is a big increase considering that waiters and waitresses at medium scale restaurants make within three dollars fifty cents, and seven dollars and fifty cents, not including tips. Fast food workers should not be paid extra because if their wages increased, the food would be more costly and they would replace humans with machines. To begin, if fast food workers were paid fifteen dollars an hour, it would make the fast food a lot more expensive.…
Americans have been suffering the negative of the economy since the economic crisis in 2008. Following the unstable economy is the sequence of negative consequences. The lower and middle class are the people who are impacted the most since they have to experience food and gas price hikes. Many of them are losing their jobs and struggling to find a new one. As a result, consumers have to cut spending, manage their budget and “cheap meals like Big Macs and Whoppers become even more attractive” (“Good and Hungry”). People go and buy more fast food for their breakfast, their lunch and even their dinner. By selling cheap meals for people fast food companies as Mac Donald or Burger King are making billions of dollars in profits every year. These companies are helping the economy by creating more jobs for Americans; however, they are paying their employees low wages, which could reduce the minimum wages in the America. “Low wages are holding back Economic growth.” (Ruetschlin, Traub). Low paid workers tend to put money in their pockets and buy less foods or clothes than before for their families. Reduction in the consumers spending will lead to reduction in the demand for goods and services,…
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